Meir Hemmo, Orly R. Shenker

The Road to Maxwell's Demon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A philosophical perspective to statistical mechanics for graduate students and researchers in the foundations and philosophy of physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781107019683
• ISBN-10: 1107019680
• Artikelnr.: 35911042

Autorenporträt

Meir Hemmo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa. He has written on various issues in the foundations of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Thermodynamics
3. Classical mechanics
4. Time
5. Macrostates
6. Probability
7. Entropy
8. Typicality
9. Measurement
10. The past
11. Gibbs
12. Erasure
13. Maxwell's Demon
Appendixes
References
Index.